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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Early Writing"”.
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Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing
For Nietzsche, the subject is aesthetically creative, meaning that the subject is a dynamic process of self-transformation that involves not only the subject’s sense of self, but the meaning of their world. In my first chapter, I look at "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" to show how …
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Examining the potential use of instructionally-relevant assessment data in early writing.
The writing performance of many school-aged children is consistently below levels necessary to produce positive outcomes. Early intervention frameworks are designed to help remedy this problem before it becomes more severe, but a key feature of early intervention frameworks—the use of data for …
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The effects of progress monitoring in early writing using curriculum-based measurement
… adequacy of progress monitoring assessments in early writing using curriculum-based measurement principles. The participants were 23 students in two first grade classrooms in a small elementary school in a medium sized city in the Midwest. The measures assessed include word copying, word …
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Working memory, language, motivation and children's early writing: A three‐year longitudinal study
… processes that support the emergence of writing in young children and to ascertain whether working memory, language ability or motivation to write underlined children's early attempts to learn how to write. Working memory, language ability and the emergent writing skills of 30 Irish …
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The impact of a training program in phonological awareness on children's early writing
… program in phonological awareness had on the early writing skills of children in a Grade One class in the Lincoln County Separate school system. The intent of the training program was to provide consistent and systematic practice in the manipulation of the phonological structure of language. …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
<p>Early literacy studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices …
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The choral music of Lou Harrison. (Volumes I and II)
Lou Harrison's music is clearly an important contribution to the twentieth century repertoire. His early writing for percussion ensemble, experiments in just intonation, melding of Eastern and Western influences, instrument building, and music for gamelan are especially significant. While much of …
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Beckett’s “no-man’s-land” : the influence of paintings on Beckett’s 1930s practice
… thesis investigates the development of Beckett’s early writing process through the impact of paintings and the techniques of painters on his practice during the 1930s. The chief contributions offered by my thesis are not only to be found in the topic and methodology themselves, but also in the …
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A Communications Revolution? The emergence of images and writing in Early Iron Age Greece and Central Italy
In this thesis I consider the (re)emergence of writing and figurative art during the Early Iron Age in Greece and Central Italy. The two main questions I ask are: why do script(s) and figurative representations emerge in the same years over such a broad area? What can the different patterns in the …
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EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851
… at Harvard from an oratory-based curriculum to a writing-based one, just as the orientation of public discourse was beginning to shift to the page. From a wide range of documents which have not been closely examined in previous histories, I argue that Channing viewed writing as primarily a modern, …
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We must look a long time before we can see : the art and science of Thoreau's early works
… little scholarship exists on Thoreau's early writing in general. By the end of his life, Thoreau's interest in nature has shifted from a predominately transcendental and philosophical one to a more scientific one, and his work as a naturalist heavily influenced this shift. Thoreau's …
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Explicit Writing Instruction: Effects on Sixth Grade Students’ Writing and Reading Achievement
… study was to examine the effect of explicit writing instruction on sixth grade students' writing growth and achievement as measured by holistic and analytic assessment. This research responds directly to the need for additional research on effective reading and writing instruction (Langer & …
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Out of Order
… locating the expression in his music and writings. I suggest tenderness relies on the trope of loss, providing a basic historical context to the trope. The meaning of tenderness, it seems, is what it laments. Furthermore, analysing the structures according to which tenderness “disorders” …
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Large-Scale Block-Play and the Five Development Pathways
… Welsh Government in its curriculum guidance for early years settings. Considering the recent curriculum reform in Wales, it is an interesting exploration of how powerful free play with ambiguous resources can be in supporting pupils to meet the descriptors of the Development Pathways and in …
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Carry-over effect of a handwriting readiness program on handwriting-related skills of children the year following intervention
… in an occupational therapy based handwriting readiness program would show greater improvements in handwriting-related skills a year following intervention when compared to a control group and an alternate experimental group. The entire study (initial study and follow-up study) was a …
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Marivaux's <i>La Voiture embourbée</i>: a translation with critical introduction
… treat the period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century as a crucial transitional period in the development of prose fiction. A number of recent works deal with the struggles of novelists in this period to create a “better” fiction through experimentation with form and format. …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… and conventions characteristic of anti-apartheid writing. I therefore read the forms and conventions in certain post-apartheid novels through the lens of anti-apartheid discourse, in particular its demand for politically engaged realism, tracing continuity and change. I argue that The Good Doctor …
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Developing an intersectionality framework for exploring gender dynamics at management level within a state-owned organization in South Africa
… intersectionality is ascribed to African women, early writing on European, Asian, and American women focused on family-related issues and to a lesser extent on the effects of prejudice and pervasive socio-economic inequalities and their manifestation in the workplace. Studies on intersectionality …